SPB News for Saturday.

Biden Meets With Georgian President Sans Reporters

Sen. Kennedy released from hospital Ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy, a liberal giant and patriarch of America's most storied political family, was examined and released from a Massachusetts hospital on Friday after suffering a mild seizure, officials said.

Contractor says immune from Iraq torture lawsuits Defense contractor CACI is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, saying it was doing the U.S. government's work [torture] as a supplier of interrogators. CACI International and a sister company, CACI Premier Technology, say in court documents that they'll employ that defense in a dismissal motion they plan to file next week in federal court in northern Virginia. Eleven U.S. soldiers were convicted of breaking military laws in the Abu Ghraib scandal.

Rep. Murtha sued over remarks In May 2006, six months after 24 people were killed in a small Iraqi town, U.S. Rep. John Murtha made a startling accusation. American soldiers, he contended, had killed innocent civilians "in cold blood." Now, less than six weeks before the longtime Johnstown Democrat is up for re-election, a Marine involved in the now-infamous Haditha war crime is suing Murtha for slander. [Terrorist] Justin Sharratt of Canonsburg, Washington County, left the Marine Corps last year. But he claims Murtha’s statements have caused "permanent, irreversible damage to his reputation."

61 Nobel laureates endorse Obama --"Instead of shutting scientific knowledge out of the White House, Senator Obama will engage top scientists." Barack Obama's campaign today laid out a detailed science policy, including a commitment to double funding for major science agencies over the next decade. The campaign also announced that 61 Nobel laureates are endorsing Obama. Calling the Bush Administration's science policy "disastrous," MIT professor and Nobel laureate Robert Horvitz joined a conference call to speak in support of Obama's science policy... In a letter of endorsement, the Nobel laureates wrote that visionary science and technology policy would be essential to maintain US competitiveness.

Evangelist arrested in child porn case — (CNN) — Evangelist Tony Alamo was arrested Thursday in Flagstaff, Arizona, on charges related to a child porn investigation, an FBI spokesman said. — The 74-year-old founder and leader of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was arrested without incident at 2:45 p.m. …

Subpoenaed Palin aides don't appear at abuse probe